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This period also coincided with the revival of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920 with the help of President Woodrow Wilson, at which time the KKK membership grew to over 4.5 million. Nor was this vast mass movement the only active player in the game of demanding the purification of society. The report states that the American Protective League and the American Legion made similar appeals. The report adds: "These were populists who had been mobilized into virtual mobs, to demand the implementation of anti-immigrant, and anti-poor programs."*(as above, p.18) Out of this background significant financial and political support was generated by American bankers and opinion makers for both Hitler and Mussolini, whose ideology was on the same wavelength.
It is reported that American financial and logistics support for Hitler continued deep into the years of the holocaust, in which millions of Jewish people were systematically murdered. The report names some of the most prominent names in American finance and business in support of Hitler's machine, such as Prescott Bush, E. Roland Harriman, the Thyssen family... and the Rockefeller family which was "part of a consortium with IG Farben, the 'industrialists' who ran the work camps at Auschwitz."*(as above, p.20)
The wide distribution of support for the various doctrines of population control, indicates that the fundamental axioms that call for the elimination of people as a means to improve society, were not specific to any class, status, race, or nationality. False axioms, when they become mistakenly or purposely promoted as truth, appear true to all who fail to examine their axioms in order to discover what really is true. People do invariably act according to what they regard as truth, or were taught to regard as truth, even to the point that the most horrific appears morally right and justifiable, if not necessary.
If humanity is to survive, these axioms must be corrected, especially those that embrace murder as a means for benefitting society. They must be corrected by society, because they are presently expanding in scope infinitely beyond the extend to which Hitler had embraced them. Also, they must be corrected individually in order to protect one's own humanity.
In order to effect this healing process it becomes necessary to isolate the reaction of a people in response to created axioms, and separate them from the individual. Without this isolation, the crimes that were committed against humanity under the force of these axioms, come to be seen as personal crimes of individuals, or as a national characteristic, rather than for what they are, created axiomatic responses. By the process of personalizing evil the axioms become hidden and the gate to healing becomes closed. In addition a new wave of hatred becomes roused that invites into consciousness new axioms of the very same kind which need to be countered and corrected.
This process of isolating a people's response to defective axioms, from the individual, and to put the focus on the axioms themselves and their deep seated lies, is a tremendously difficult task, and an agonizing one. The task may appear easy on the surface. Theoretically, one can rationalize the Nazi holocaust, for instance, as the result of deranged minds of brutal rulers who had terrorized the nation. Unfortunately, this theory does not solve anything, nor is it supported by historical evidence.
It is possible, however, by exploring the details involved, to recognize the existence of separate processes that are distinctly controlled by axiomatic responses that reflect deeply imposed ideological doctrine, and to recognize that these axiomatic responses override the humanity of the perpetrator in context with the axiomatic assumptions.
Hitler's willing executioners.
In his 1996 book, Hitler's Willing Executioners, the author, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Assistant Professor at Haward University, attempts to affect this type of separation on the basis of historical records. He describes the deeds of the notorious Police Battalions of Hitler's Order Police who was given the task of rounding up the Jewish population and deporting them to the work camps or the killing centers called concentration camps, or to perform the killing themselves, locally.
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